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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11122925/1/Someone-has-heard-them-scream Someone Has Heard Them Scream]]'' is a {{Crossover}} {{Fanfic}} between Franchise/MassEffect and Franchise/AlienVsPredator by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6578858/magkiln magkiln]].
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11122925/1/Someone-has-heard-them-scream Someone Has Heard Them Scream]]'' has heard them scream]]'' is a {{Crossover}} {{Fanfic}} between Franchise/MassEffect ''Franchise/MassEffect'' and Franchise/AlienVsPredator ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6578858/magkiln magkiln]].
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* WouldNotShootACivilian: {{Averted}}. The turians do not hesitate to kill human civilians, including with orbital bombardment attacks against civilian villages, as a terror tactic during their brief occupation of Shanxi. The Citadel Races are bewildered when the humans try and execute General Arterius for these crimes, and when they hear that the humans are getting ready to prosecute the rest of their turian prisoners for carrying out these orders they leap into action to get a treaty in place and the prisoners back.
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* WouldNotShootACivilian: {{Averted}}. The turians do not hesitate to kill human civilians, including with orbital bombardment attacks against civilian villages, as a terror tactic during their brief occupation of Shanxi. The Citadel Races are bewildered when the humans try and execute General Arterius for these crimes, and when they hear that the humans are getting ready to prosecute the rest of their turian prisoners for carrying out these orders they leap into action to get a treaty in place and the prisoners back.back.
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This or these examples of Surprisingly Realistic Outcome seem to violate at least one of these rules, which disqualifies them: No character reactions (characters get angry, don't forgive, don't change their personality instantly, etc.); Too fantastical (depends on the properties of magic, powers, sci-fi tech, monsters, etc.); Not surprising (a character was warned about the outcome, it's used to provide Karma or An Aesop, or it simply follows normal conventions for this genre or medium); Plot happens (the example only describes an event, but not why audiences would expect a different, unrealistic outcome); Not an outcome (a character just explains why something wouldn't work as expected, or something is just an innate aspect of the setting or character that has a logical reason for being present); More of a Deconstruction (the event has major, lasting effects on the plot, make something more realistic, but not completely realistic, or a parody/fanwork applies realistic consequences to the events of a different work); or fits better under a different trope. See the trope's definition for more details. If you believe a removal was a mistake, please bring it up in the cleanup thread
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Benezia's attempts to bring humanity into the Citadel community do not go as planned, and Vickers explains why. The United Systems are structured in a way that they cannot legally subvert themselves to an outside government, especially not one that would have ultimate authority over them and in which they would have no representation. When Vickers explains this to Benezia's aid, she is speechless, as every alien race that the Citadel has met and absorbed in the past were easily brought into their fold... but only because those races had barely begun to make their first forays into interstellar travel and each had little in the way of an expansive interstellar dominion in any way comparable to what humanity has. The only exceptions to that were the turians, who joined the Citadel through an institutional alliance formed out of desperation in the Krogan Rebellions.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: {{Subverted}} by Shepard during the Torfan raid. She does not hesitate to torture batarian prisoners for information and nukes the batarians after their surrender and defeat. However, as she points out when questioned, these are ''not'' war crimes. The batarians of Torfan are slavers and pirates, two groups which the Geneva Convention explicitly states are not entitled to any protections whatsoever.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: WordOfGod goes into detail the exact timeline of the story. The films ''{{Film/Predator}}'', ''Film/Predator2'', ''{{Film/Alien}}'', ''{{Film/Aliens}}'', and ''Film/Alien3'' are said to have occurred as they did in canon, but the events of ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'', ''Film/AlienCovenant'', and all other solo ''Predator'' films are omitted as they contradict the fictional history established in the fanfic. The author states that the two ''Alien vs. Predator'' films are free to be considered canon by readers, but will more than likely not be referenced.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: WordOfGod goes into detail the exact timeline of the story. The films ''{{Film/Predator}}'', ''Film/Predator2'', ''{{Film/Alien}}'', ''{{Film/Aliens}}'', and ''Film/Alien3'' are said to have occurred as they did in canon, but the events of ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'', ''Film/AlienCovenant'', and all other solo ''Predator'' films are omitted as they contradict the fictional history established in the fanfic. The As ''Film/AlienResurrection'' is chronologically set in the 2300s, it is not referenced here nor will it ever even occur because history is no longer as it was in canon. Finally, the author states that the two ''Alien vs. Predator'' films are free to be considered canon by readers, but will more than likely not be referenced.
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* TheDreaded: After the disastrous events at LV-426 and the overall effects they had on humanity, the xenomorphs are considered to be a Class A threat that is to be killed at all cost. When a xenomorph attacks the Citadel exploratory group aboard the ''Calypso'', the United Systems completely abandon all basic protocols in regards to first contact in order to kill the creature.
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* TheFederation: The United Systems stands as the governing body of mankind. Backstory establishes that it was formed by a military movement that rose up in response to political uprising against Weyland-Yutani after their actions in the original three ''Alien'' films were brought to light. The military was able to wrestle power from the corporations, establishing a central government
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Benezia's attempts to bring humanity into the Citadel community do not go as planned, and Vickers explains why. The United Systems are structured in a way that they cannot legally subvert themselves to an outside government, especially not one that would have ultimate authority over them and in which they would have no representation. When Vickers explains this to Benezia's aid, she is speechless, as every alien race that the Citadel has met and absorbed in the past were easily brought into their fold... but only because those races had barely begun to make their first forays into interstellar travel and each had little in the way of an expansive interstellar dominion in any way comparable to what humanity has. The only exceptions to that were the turians, who joined the Citadel through an institutional alliance formed out of desperation in the Krogan Rebellions.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: WordOfGod goes into detail the exact timeline of the story. The films ''{{Film/Predator}}'', ''Film/Predator2'', ''{{Film/Alien}}'', ''{{Film/Aliens}}'', and ''Film/Alien3'' are said to have occurred as they did in canon, but the events of ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'', ''Film/AlienCovenant'', and all other solo ''Predator'' films are omitted as they contradict the fictional history established in the fanfic. The author states that the two ''Alien vs. Predator'' films are free to be considered canon by readers, but will more than likely not be referenced.
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* CultureClash: To the turians, war means doing whatever it takes to achieve victory and defeat the enemy. Thus they are bewildered by the humans' [[UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar rules of war]] and the concept of limited warfare, as they find the idea of deliberately restricting oneself in battle to be illogical.
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* Irony: [[spoiler: The Normandy, a stealth ship, ends up being used as a distraction to keep the Citadel spies from finding out about the USM's "superdreadnought" program. Shepard lampshades the irony.]]
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* Irony: {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: The Normandy, a stealth ship, ends up being used as a distraction to keep the Citadel spies from finding out about the USM's "superdreadnought" program. Shepard lampshades the irony.]]
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* AdaptationDistillation: So far, it appears the Reapers are completely absent in this version, with the Predators replacing Saren's backers in ME1, and an Engineer ship taking the place of Sovereign.
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* AdaptationDistillation: So far, it appears the Reapers are completely absent in this version, with the Predators replacing Saren's backers in ME1, [=ME1=], and an Engineer ship taking the place of Sovereign.
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* Irony: [[spoiler: The Normandy, a stealth ship, ends up being used as a distraction to keep the Citadel spies from finding out about the USM's "superdreadnought" program. Shepard lampshades the irony.]]
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* AdaptationDistillation: So far, it appears the Reapers are completely absent in this version, with the Predators replacing Saren's backers in ME1, and an Engineer ship taking the place of Sovereign.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The Citadel races' opinion of the tachyon shunt drive. Unlike eezo drives, it can be scaled up indefinitely and can be used for a journey of any length without having to stop to discharge drive cores. However, the maximum speed you can attain is less than one tenth that of an eezo drive. This is why, despite knowing it was theoretically possible, no Citadel race ever seriously investigated this technology. Humanity still uses the TSD to a limited degree in civilian traffic (very large but slow freighters can be useful for certain applications), but even they don't use it for warships.
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* JustTheFirstCitizen: Despite the name, the Asari Republics are not what humans would class as a "republic" (elected officials make the laws and run the country). Instead, they are pure democracies (almost all laws are approved or rejected by direct plebiscite). As such, political power rests in the hands of the capital-M Matriarchs such as Benezia, those who the majority of the Asari citizens look to for advice on how to vote.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimesScene: {{Subverted}} by Shepard during the Torfan raid. She does not hesitate to torture batarian prisoners for information and nukes the batarians after their surrender and defeat. However, as she points out when questioned, these are ''not'' war crimes. The batarians of Torfan are slavers and pirates, two groups which the Geneva Convention explicitly states are not entitled to any protections whatsoever.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimesScene: ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: {{Subverted}} by Shepard during the Torfan raid. She does not hesitate to torture batarian prisoners for information and nukes the batarians after their surrender and defeat. However, as she points out when questioned, these are ''not'' war crimes. The batarians of Torfan are slavers and pirates, two groups which the Geneva Convention explicitly states are not entitled to any protections whatsoever.
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* MightyGlacier: [[spoiler: The human "superdreadnaughts" are approximately on the same scale as the ''Destiny Ascension'', and as such can take on several regular dreadnaughts, but their use of an undersized eezo core to keep costs down to something not wholly impractical means that outside the relay network they must use a tachyon shunt drive (which has about 1/10 the maximum speed of eezo-based FTL) to travel between systems.]]
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* MightyGlacier: [[spoiler: The human "superdreadnaughts" are approximately on the same scale as the ''Destiny Ascension'', and as such can take on several regular dreadnaughts, but their use of an undersized eezo core to keep costs down to something not wholly impractical means that outside the relay network they must use a tachyon shunt drive (which has about 1/10 the maximum speed of eezo-based FTL) to travel between systems.]]]]
* ObligatoryWarCrimesScene: {{Subverted}} by Shepard during the Torfan raid. She does not hesitate to torture batarian prisoners for information and nukes the batarians after their surrender and defeat. However, as she points out when questioned, these are ''not'' war crimes. The batarians of Torfan are slavers and pirates, two groups which the Geneva Convention explicitly states are not entitled to any protections whatsoever.
* WouldNotShootACivilian: {{Averted}}. The turians do not hesitate to kill human civilians, including with orbital bombardment attacks against civilian villages, as a terror tactic during their brief occupation of Shanxi. The Citadel Races are bewildered when the humans try and execute General Arterius for these crimes, and when they hear that the humans are getting ready to prosecute the rest of their turian prisoners for carrying out these orders they leap into action to get a treaty in place and the prisoners back.
* ObligatoryWarCrimesScene: {{Subverted}} by Shepard during the Torfan raid. She does not hesitate to torture batarian prisoners for information and nukes the batarians after their surrender and defeat. However, as she points out when questioned, these are ''not'' war crimes. The batarians of Torfan are slavers and pirates, two groups which the Geneva Convention explicitly states are not entitled to any protections whatsoever.
* WouldNotShootACivilian: {{Averted}}. The turians do not hesitate to kill human civilians, including with orbital bombardment attacks against civilian villages, as a terror tactic during their brief occupation of Shanxi. The Citadel Races are bewildered when the humans try and execute General Arterius for these crimes, and when they hear that the humans are getting ready to prosecute the rest of their turian prisoners for carrying out these orders they leap into action to get a treaty in place and the prisoners back.
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* CantArgueWithElves: Benezia is noted by several characters, including her own daughter, to be subtly convinced of the inherent superiority of asari over all other races. She did not take the human refusal to submit to Citadel authority well, and it's speculated that this was behind her involvement with Saren's conspiracy.
* InvisibleMonster: The Yajuta have taken stealth technology to a level far beyond what any other race can manage, allowing them both to make personal cloaks that will never fail, and to cloak entire starships.
* MightyGlacier: [[spoiler: The human "superdreadnaughts" are approximately on the same scale as the ''Destiny Ascension'', and as such can take on several regular dreadnaughts, but their use of an undersized eezo core to keep costs down to something not wholly impractical means that outside the relay network they must use a tachyon shunt drive (which has about 1/10 the maximum speed of eezo-based FTL) to travel between systems.]]
* CantArgueWithElves: Benezia is noted by several characters, including her own daughter, to be subtly convinced of the inherent superiority of asari over all other races. She did not take the human refusal to submit to Citadel authority well, and it's speculated that this was behind her involvement with Saren's conspiracy.
* InvisibleMonster: The Yajuta have taken stealth technology to a level far beyond what any other race can manage, allowing them both to make personal cloaks that will never fail, and to cloak entire starships.
* MightyGlacier: [[spoiler: The human "superdreadnaughts" are approximately on the same scale as the ''Destiny Ascension'', and as such can take on several regular dreadnaughts, but their use of an undersized eezo core to keep costs down to something not wholly impractical means that outside the relay network they must use a tachyon shunt drive (which has about 1/10 the maximum speed of eezo-based FTL) to travel between systems.]]
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11122925/1/Someone-has-heard-them-scream Someone Has Heard Them Scream]]'' is a {{Crossover}} {{Fanfic}} between Franchise/MassEffect and Franchise/AlienVsPredator by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6578858/magkiln magkiln]].
A council ship on a routine survey mission comes across a derelict vessel of unknown origin. Upon boarding, they find a single body, curiously asari-like, with its chest burst open as if from the inside. When the ship's owners arrive, first contact has to be made under the worst possible circumstances. Astoundingly, they manage to not only survive the monsters loose upon the ship but make a successful first contact... [[DiabolusExMachina only to discover too late that the Turian Hierarchy had just critically bungled ]]''[[DiabolusExMachina their ]]''[[DiabolusExMachina first contact, and the Council is at war.]]
Further works in this series are ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11208916/1/Someone-had-blundered Someone Had Blundered]]'' (exploring the Relay 314 incident and the First Contact War), ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12456132/1/In-Torfan-no-one-cares-if-you-scream In Torfan, No One Cares If You Scream]]'' (describing the Torfan raid), ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12821154/1/Soon-everyone-will-hear-the-screams Soon, Everyone Will Hear The Screams]]'' (describing the events of the first Mass Effect game), and ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11144180/1/Intelligence-reports Intelligence Reports]]'' (a series of infodumps on various topics disguised as in-universe documents).
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A council ship on a routine survey mission comes across a derelict vessel of unknown origin. Upon boarding, they find a single body, curiously asari-like, with its chest burst open as if from the inside. When the ship's owners arrive, first contact has to be made under the worst possible circumstances. Astoundingly, they manage to not only survive the monsters loose upon the ship but make a successful first contact... [[DiabolusExMachina only to discover too late that the Turian Hierarchy had just critically bungled ]]''[[DiabolusExMachina their ]]''[[DiabolusExMachina first contact, and the Council is at war.]]
Further works in this series are ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11208916/1/Someone-had-blundered Someone Had Blundered]]'' (exploring the Relay 314 incident and the First Contact War), ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12456132/1/In-Torfan-no-one-cares-if-you-scream In Torfan, No One Cares If You Scream]]'' (describing the Torfan raid), ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12821154/1/Soon-everyone-will-hear-the-screams Soon, Everyone Will Hear The Screams]]'' (describing the events of the first Mass Effect game), and ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11144180/1/Intelligence-reports Intelligence Reports]]'' (a series of infodumps on various topics disguised as in-universe documents).
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